Word: berkeley
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...meantime, Skocpol had accepted a tenured position at the University of Chicago. The University of California at Berkeley also offerred Skocpol a tenured position...
...fossil find may have implications for the controversial theory proposed by a team headed by Physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, Berkeley. In their view, at least some of the great extinctions, especially the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, were caused by the effects of giant comets or asteroids smashing into the earth. The impacts, they suggest, spewed debris into the atmosphere, obscuring the sun, causing temperatures to drop and bringing on a long "winter" that killed much of the life on earth. But, at least...
Mark Anders, 38, a Berkeley graduate student who works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he finds the mineral clues below the fossil deposits, he says, the impact probably preceded and could have caused the extinction, thus strengthening the Alvarez hypothesis...
...imaginary malady. This dilemma has spawned a new type of day-care facility for children with mild illnesses. More than three dozen of these so-called sniffle centers have opened for business around the U.S., often bearing names right out of A.A. Milne, like Wheezles and Sneezles in Berkeley...
Most of the facilities are open year-round, but Berkeley's Wheezles and Sneezles closes during the summer. Reason: when school is out and the weather is nice, business falls off dramatically...